Thought Bondage.

Very profound

Adi Shankara was walking through the market place with his disciples.

They saw a man dragging a cow by a rope.

Shankara told the man to wait and asked his disciples to surround them.

“I am going to teach you something” and continued...

“Tell me who is bound to whom? Is the cow bound to this man or the man is bound to the cow?

The disciples said without hesitation “Of course the cow is bound to the man!. The
man is the master. He is holding the rope. The cow has to follow him wherever he goes. The man is the master and the cow is the slave.”

“Now watch this”, said Shankara and took a pair of scissors from his bag and cut the rope.


The cow ran away from the master and the man ran after his cow. “Look, what is
happening”, said Shankar

“Do you see who the Master is? The cow is not at all interested in this man. The cow in fact, is trying to escape from this man.” This is the case with our MIND.

Like the cow, all the non-sense that we carry inside is not interested in us. WE ARE INTERESTED IN IT, we are keeping it together somehow or the other. We are going crazy trying to keep it all together under our control.

The moment we lose interest in all the garbage filled in our head, and the moment we understand the futility of it, it will start to disappear. Like the cow, it will escape and disappear.” We can allow disappearing of all the unwanted things from our mind and feel relaxed. 

Shared by Priti Sanghavi

Non Judging. Lotus Mind.

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At a class, a teacher narrated a story:

A cruise ship met with an accident at sea. 

On the ship was a couple who realized that there was space for only one person in the lifeboat once they made their way to it.

At this moment, the man pushed the woman behind him and jumped onto the lifeboat himself.

The lady stood on the sinking ship and shouted one sentence to her husband.

The teacher stopped and asked, "What do you think she shouted?"

Most of the students excitedly answered, "I hate you! I was blind!"

Now, the teacher noticed a boy who was silent throughout, she got him to answer and he replied, "Teacher, I believe she would have shouted - Take care of our child!"

The teacher was surprised, asking "Have you heard this story before?"

The boy shook his head, "Nope, but that was what my mum told my dad before she died".

The teacher lamented, "The answer is right".

The cruise sunk, the man went home and brought up their daughter single-handedly.

Many years later after the death of the man, their daughter found his diary while tidying his belongings.

It turns out that when parents went onto the cruise ship, the mother was already diagnosed with a terminal illness. At that critical moment, the father rushed to the only chance of survival.

He wrote in his diary, "How I wished to sink to the bottom of the ocean with you, but for the sake of our daughter, I can only let you lie forever below the sea alone".

The story finished, the class was silent.

The teacher saw that the students understood the moral of the story, that of the good and the evil in the world, there are many complications behind them which are hard to understand.

Which is why, we should never focus on the surface and refrain from judging others without understanding them first.

Those who like to pay the bill, do so not because they are loaded but because they value friendship above money.

Those who take the initiative at work, do so not because they are stupid but because they understand the concept of responsibility.

Those who apologize first after a fight, do so not because they are wrong but because they value the people around them.

Those who are willing to help you, do so not because they owe you anything but because they see you as a true friend.....

The lotus is a symbol of purity. Its roots are in the mud, but the flower remains above dirty water. Live a lotus life. Be in the world, but unaffected by impurities.

From a message shared by Devika Rele.  

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Human Beings. Simple Story.

Very interesting story....
                        

In an ancient temple, a number of pigeons lived in the top of the gopuram (picture below shows a gopuram),  as they normally prefer elevated or high structures. 

It so happened that the temple management decided to renovate the temple and do Kumbabhishekam.

                                                     

When the work began, the pigeons had no choice but to relocate.
  

They found a Church nearby and decided to settle there. As there were already some pigeons staying in the Church, the newcomers, managed to squeeeze in wherever they could.

It so happend that Christmas was approaching and the Church management decided to get the church painted. 

The new pigeons alongwith the earlier ones now had to move out and look for another place to stay.

They were all fortunate to find place in a nearby Mosque.

                                    

In some time the Mosque too, due to Ramzan had to undergo repairs.

By this time, work at the temple and the function was over, and all the pigeons came back to the temple. 

                                              
One day, when the pigeons were sitting on the top and relaxing, they were saw some communal clashes happening on below and not far from the temple.

 

A baby pigeon asked its mother "Who are these people? "

The mother replied that 'They are "Human beings".

The baby asked
"But why are they fighting with each other?"

The mother said 

"These human beings going to temple are called 'Hindus' 

and the people going to Church are called 'Christians' 

and the people going to a Mosque are called 'Muslims'.

The Baby pigeon asked

" Why is it so? 

Look, when we were in the Temple we were called Pigeons, 

when we were in the Church we were called Pigeons 

and when we were in the Mosque, we were called Pigeons.

Similarly they should be called just 'Human beings' wherever they go".

Look at the wonderful reply the Mother gave;

"You and me and our Pigeon friends have understood and
thats why we are living here in a highly elevated place peacefully, these people are yet to understand that and hence they are living  below us and fighting and killing each other".
                              

Give this a thought as you celebrate Diwali, Eid or Christmas or any other festival.

                                              

From a message shared by Amber Sukhi